Adelantado

Sometimes, we want to celebrate in advance. That's the opposite of postponement.

The Spanish word for advanced is adelantado.


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Sometimes, i place something somewhere, then go looking for it somewhere else. It is good i still always remember what i'm looking for.

I'm afraid someday i may not remember what i'm looking for... Then what?

Here is the song:

Downloading YouTube Videos

Sometimes, we want to download YouTube videos and save them in our hard disks. They stay there and add to all sort of jewels, nuggets, and junks we save from the internet.

Here is one tool to download the videos.

This one I have not tested yet. But the site claims that their service converts the flv file to mp4 during the download process.

Bjork

It seems that we haven't had music on the blog for so long a time. I made a very short playlist of some of Bjork's songs. If Gugu likes, we can move the playlist, with new color and new and additional songs, to the right column so that it will stay there even if new posts are made.

Every father should introduce Bjork to their daughters. Bjork's lyrics are simple but deep. "Alarm Call" is my daughter's favorite.

This playlist does not autostart, so click on the Play Button.

Lucy Liu

Lucy Liu is my favorite Action Star. I like to watch all of her movies, and the way she used her kung fu. I first saw her in the movie titled "Charlies Angel" which she looks like "Pokwang" the Comedy Actress here in the Philippines. [Laugh] Yeah thats true they're look a like, but lucy Liu is pretty than pokwang. i like her eyes most and the shape of her face which made me remember the cartoon character "mulan"

Elaine Lui

My new heroine:  Elaine Lui.

She is also known as Lui Siu Ling, family name first.  Also as Siu Ling Lui.

This photo is from one of her movies, Iron Angels (aka Midnight Angels, aka Angels, aka Fighting Madam, aka Angel, aka Tian shi xing dong).   There was also a sequel.  These Hong Kong movies were produced before Tarantino's Charlie's Angels.

Elaine's other famous movies are The Bride with White Hair (which also had a sequel), and The Red Wolf.

I'll try to find one of Elaine Lui's movies for my Gugu.

Require Login

Sometimes, we want to require login before other users on the LAN may access our shared folders and documents.

To do that on Windows XP, we must disable 'Simple File Sharing.' Open Windows Explorer--Start>Run>Explorer, or just open My Computer, or any folder. On the menu, click Tools>Folder Options>View. Scroll down towards the bottom of the drop-down list under Advanced settings. Uncheck the box for "use simple file sharing."

Reboot.

Shawarma

Gugu-er, all i'm thinking about is food! But remember, i always remember. Aku mau makan, kuingat kamu!

Though she was not able to eat her lunch on time, Gugu bought shawarma for both of us. Heaven! That was good! She made kulit to have lots of hot sauce and garlic sauce. That was very nice of her.

I offered her coffee to go with her shawarma but she declined. Later in the day she got a bad headache.

I believe it was because she did not have her caffeine fix for the day. I must never allow her to be 'matigas ulo.' If she had drunk her coffee maybe she would not have had that headache.

She's so hard-headed and proud, she really is a Di Lung. I had been a successful Snake in turning her into a coffee addict. I should fix her coffee whenever she's around. That would be my responsibility for my Gugu.

Jalapeno

Jalapeno is named after the town of Xalapa in Veracruz, Mexico where it was traditionally grown.

The 'heat' of peppers are measured in Scoville units, ranging from 0 for bell peppers to 1,000,000 for the Naga Jolokia (grown in NE India). The Standard U.S. Grade pepper spray used for defense against thugs has an SR of 2,000,000 to 5,300,000. Pure capsaicin has a Scoville rating of 16,000,000. Hot!

The Jalapeno's SR is Medium, ranging from 2,500 to 8,000.

I love Jalapenos. I love Sili Labuyo. I love pepper. Hot! Hot! Hot!

Tea, Te, Tsa, Tsaa

Not really tea but.... This one looks tasty, but is very bland compared to Jasmine tea. It comes as a welcome break for the roundness and the bitterness in Oolong tea, which i like black.

There are red tea (mostly decaffeinated), white tea, green teas... i like mine black. There are herbals, fruities, limeys, spicies...

Once i gave Gugu a blackcurrant fruity black tea. I learned she almost choked. Will try again to introduce her to tea, starting with blander and milder flavors, later.

Giant Peanuts

This is Gugu after eating Giant Peanuts.  That's me combing her hair.





And this is me after Gugu gave me The Wall treatment because I ate her giant peanuts.

Parts of Our Speech

You cannot spell the words

Friend without dine. That's why i alway insist we take coffee and lunch, and coffee, together.

Teacher without chat. That's why i am uncomfortable when pidgin is silent.

Boss without sob. So get used to my tears in rare instances they appear.  They don't mean i'm weak, only that i'm alive.

Master without team. Are you one of us?

Father without heart. Would the f be for friend?

Your first name without love.
My last name without care.
Cancer without care.

Dragon without grand.
Snake without ken. So understand.

I Love . . . .

i love:

1. strawberry ice cream
2. lunchtime with Gugu
3. baroque music
4. sinampalukang kambing
5. caffeine (any source, coffee, Coke, tea)
6. philip jose farmer
7. gong li
8. sleeping late
9. staying in bed till 10 am
10. jalapenos

MP3 Player

Close the page/tab. Then open it again. Sometimes, a new song playlist will be loaded.

Español Bryan A.

I found this link to a Spanish version of Bryan Adam's song. Right-click on the link and open in a new window/tab/layer.